Our Approach

Our Approach to Operational Efficiency

Operational Efficiency Essentials

In order to improve operational efficiency, engineers must focus on four main components: reliability, metrics, sustainability, and benchmarking. With Envoy constantly monitoring your data, it is much easier to identify any issues that arise related to any of these components.

We achieve this using our people, processes, and technology. Respectively, these lower cost, increase speed, and improve quality, and all of them together add value to the customer.

Our Technology

Throughout the day the Envoy database collects data from PI and then calculates statistics from this data. We apply filters to the data so that we don’t include data collected during downtime. In other words, we only use good data to calculate statistics.

Automation is a central part of our technology. Not only do we automate the data collection and aggregation, but we also automate data analysis and reporting to maximize client value.

Much like Google indexes the web, we index PI data statistically to quickly identify changes in your process. We focus on variables that are outside of their normal limits and CUSUM inflection points that correlate with KPI CUSUM inflections

Our Process

To complement our technology, we utilize various processes that facilitate getting useful information into the hands of our customers as quickly and efficiently as possible.

For example, every day our software identifies process variables that are outside of the normal operating envelope. We look through these changes and identify the important items then forward them back to the customer an email. This is one of the areas where we use extensive automation to make this a very efficient process

Once per month, or when requested, we generate a comprehensive monthly report. This is a comprehensive technical review tailored to support site operations.

We look at dozens of processes and have done so for quite some time. From this experience, we have developed an extensive knowledge base which provides a source for benchmarking, not only in terms of targets but in solutions. Take a look at our case studies to see what types of problems we can solve.